The collective shunning of the AfD party is part of a longstanding attempt to blunt its move into the mainstream.

Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is set to return to power with the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

Yet early voter analysis shows the asylum/public security issue was key in a mass defection of voters from mainstream parties ...

Berlin — Germany’s conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, ...

CNN’s Fred Pleitgen speaks with Daniel Caspary, a member of the European Parliament and CDU/CSU group chair, on exit polls ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives have won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, projections show.

Centre-right party the Christian Democratic Union of Germany is projected to win the national election, putting Friedrich Merz on track to be the country's next chancellor.

Early projections say Germany's conservative bloc has secured some 28.5% of the votes ahead of the far-right AfD with over 20 ...

Germany's conservatives win the vote, while the far right alternative has an unprecedented surge and the Social Democrats ...

Peter Dutton has taken the wind out of Anthony Albanese's Medicare election pledge, and the far-right AfD has made huge gains ...

At the start of November last year, Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired Finance Minister Christian Lindner - the leader of one of ...